Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
2-3 MAY 2009
Organizing Committee:
Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Lea Schweitz (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago)
Mogens Lærke (University of Chicago)
All sessions will take place in
The Franke Institute conference room in the Regenstein Library
Saturday 2 May
12.00-13.15
Ohad Nachtomy (Bar Ilan University) “…nisi… Deus existeret, nihil possibile foret.” Leibniz and Kant on Possibility and Existence
13.15-14.30
Marcy Lascano (University of California, Long Beach)Leibniz and Kant on Creation and Emanation
Break
15.00-16.15
Joseph Tinguely (New School of Social Research)What is Orientation not in Thinking? A Reconsideration of Kant and the Role of Feelings in Knowledge
16.15-17.30
Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard University)Leibniz’s Meta-Conciliatory Account of Substance
Break
17.45-19.00
Eric Stencil (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Arnauld’s Actualism
20.00. Conference Dinner
Sunday 3 May
9.00-10.15
Fatima R. R. Evora (State University of Campinas) and Marcio A. D. Custodio (Princeton University)The Concept of Matter in Philoponus and its Repercussions in the Beginning of Modern Science
10.15-11.30
Eric Schliesser (Leiden University)Newtonian Emanation, Measurement and the Baconian Origins of the Laws of Nature
Light Lunch
12.45-14.00
Lynn S. Joy (University of Notre Dame)Dispositions and Intentionality in Boyle, Newton, and Hume
* For further information, please contact Mogens Lærke on mlaerke@uchicago.edu
